{"id":18820,"date":"2022-03-26T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2022-03-27T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:51:13","slug":"dacapo-chamber-choirs-be-like-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/dacapo-chamber-choirs-be-like-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s &#8220;Be Like a Bird&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert &#8220;Be Like a Bird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be Like a Bird &#8212; Abbie Betinis<\/li>\n<li>One Ruby-throated Moment &#8212; Leonard Enns<\/li>\n<li>Mid-Winter Songs &#8212; Morten Lauridsen *\n<ul>\n<li>Lament for Pasiphae<\/li>\n<li>Like Snow<\/li>\n<li>She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep<\/li>\n<li>Mid-Winter Waking<\/li>\n<li>Intercession in Late October<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ondine (Prelude, Book 2, No. 8) &#8212; Claude Debussy **<\/li>\n<li>Stars &#8212; Eriks Esenvalds<\/li>\n<li>Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine &#8212; Eric Whitacre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For one set of songs Catherine Robertson accompanied the choir on piano.* She also played a solo &#8212; the Debussy was a breath of fresh air.**<\/p>\n<p>Of the songs I knew, the Esenvalds &#8212; which included wine glasses being played &#8212; grabbed me the most. Of the ones I didn&#8217;t know, the Whitacre was the most memorable.<\/p>\n<p>The choir also sang a piece by a Ukrainian composer, in support of Ukraine. This was added after the program was printed.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Enns is the director. In the program he says, &#8220;Humanity wants to break free of gravitational pulls in many ways: particularly to be free of the old duo. war and pestilence. Still we reach &#8212; perhaps &#8216;resting on a bough to sight,&#8217; but knowing we have wings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was the first concert I attended in 2 years &#8212; it was very nice to get out and hear live music. Because of the pandemic, the audience was limited and everyone was masked.<\/p>\n<p>The previous DaCapo concert I attended was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/dacapo-choirs-life-and-love-and-wings\/\">Life and love and wings<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended DaCapo Chamber Choir&#8217;s concert &#8220;Be Like a Bird.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the program: Be Like a Bird &#8212; Abbie Betinis One Ruby-throated Moment &#8212; Leonard Enns Mid-Winter Songs &#8212; Morten Lauridsen * Lament for Pasiphae Like Snow She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep Mid-Winter Waking Intercession in Late October Ondine (Prelude, Book 2, No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[91,13,5],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-of-music","tag-classical","tag-music","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18831,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}